DOJ Declares Longstanding Gun Restriction Is Unconstitutional and Cannot Be Enforced

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice just handed Second Amendment supporters a big win.

And it looks to rewrite nearly 100 years of precedent.

The DOJ has ruled that a century-old federal ban on sending handguns through the mail is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced.

The DOJ released the 15-page opinion, written by T. Elliot Gaiser, the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, on Thursday.

The opinion ultimately determined that the 1927 law, which made it illegal to mail concealable firearms (typically handguns such as pistols and revolvers, but also short-barreled shotguns and rifles), was an infringement on Second Amendment rights.

“We conclude that the restriction imposed by section 1715 violates the Second Amendment,” Gaiser wrote. “Section 1715 makes it difficult to